Tag: Nation

In this Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012 photo, Edith Windsor speaks during an interview in her New York City apartment. Windsor has found some notoriety at age 83, as her challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act will be heard by the United States Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

NY plaintiff: Gay benefits ‘bigger than marriage’

Larry Neumeister · December 30, 2012 8:58 pm

Maine man, 74, held in deaths of teenage tenants

Clarke Canfield · December 30, 2012 8:18 pm

In this 2012 photo provided by Adrian College, members of the school's Bulldog football team warm up before homecoming in Adrian, Mich. Adrian's president, Jeffrey Docking, has added seven sports and two pre-professional degree programs to the liberal arts college since arriving in 2005 _ and nearly doubled enrollment to about 1,750. (AP Photo/Adrian College, Matt Gaidica Photography)

Liberal arts colleges forced to evolve with market

Justin Pope · December 30, 2012 7:22 pm

FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2006 file photo, former President George H.W. Bush delivers the keynote speech before receiving an honorary Doctor of Public Administration degree at Suffolk University in Boston. A spokesman says Bush's condition continues to improve and that he was moved Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012, out of intensive care and into a regular hospital room. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, Pool, File)

Former President Bush remains hospitalized

Washington Examiner · December 30, 2012 6:31 pm

FILE - In this May 16, 2012 file photo, Florida Gov. Rick Scott speaks in Fort Lauderdale. Florida Gov. Rick Scott, long opposed President Barack Obama's remake of the health insurance market. After President Obama won re-election, the Republican governor softened his tone. He said he wanted to "have a conversation" with the administration about implementing the 2010 law. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter, File)

GOP governors walk balance beam on health law

Bill Barrow · December 30, 2012 5:47 pm

FILE - In this Dec. 31, 2011 file photo, a police officer walks through a frozen zone in New York Cityâs Times Square as revelers wave balloons in anticipation of midnight. The New York City police use an array of security measures for the event that turns the "Crossroads of the World" into a massive street party in the heart of Manhattan. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Times Square packed with security for New Year’s

Tom Hays · December 30, 2012 4:39 pm

In this photo taken Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012 in Concord, N.H., the world's first openly gay Episcopal bishop, Gene Robinson, poses for a photo at the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire. He retires from his post Jan. 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

First gay Anglican bishop reflects on tenure in NH

Lynne Tuohy · December 30, 2012 4:21 pm

FOR USE MONDAY DEC. 31, 2012 AND THEREAFTER - FILE - In this Dec. 5, 2012 file photo taken in Springfield, Ill., Illinois Rep. Daniel Biss, D-Skokie, left, looks on as Illinois Rep. Elaine Nekritz, D-Des Plaines, speaks with reporters at the Illinois State Capitol. Lawmakers will convene again the first week in January in hopes of fixing the nation's worst case of underfunding state employees' pensions, a problem approaching $100 billion and mounting by $17 million per day. On the table are solutions that other states adopted as long as five years ago. "Nothing has changed in 40 years," said Nekritz, a Chicago Democrat and chairman of the House Pensions Committee, who called for an end to "excuses" when rolling out another proposal to solve the problem this month. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

Illinois dragging its feet on huge pension problem

Sara Burnett · December 30, 2012 3:19 pm

Scholar of Benjamin Franklin’s papers dies at 92

Washington Examiner · December 30, 2012 1:09 pm

Cars drive through a winter snow storm, Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012. on South Main Street in Pittston, Pa. Snow from a mild but widespread winter storm began falling Saturday over most of the Northeast and the upper Ohio River Valley, the second in less than a week for the regions. (AP Photo/The Citizens' Voice, Ralph Francello) MANDATORY CREDIT

Storm leaves up to foot of snow in New England

Washington Examiner · December 30, 2012 12:57 pm

FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2006 file photo, former President George H.W. Bush delivers the keynote speech before receiving an honorary Doctor of Public Administration degree at Suffolk University in Boston. A spokesman says Bush's condition continues to improve and that he was moved Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012, out of intensive care and into a regular hospital room. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, Pool, File)

Former President Bush moved out of intensive care

Washington Examiner · December 30, 2012 6:00 am

FILE - This Feb. 18, 2005 file photo shows the original Emancipation Proclamation on display in the Rotunda of the National Archives in Washington. As New Year's Day approached 150 years ago, all eyes were on President Abraham Lincoln in expectation of what he warned 100 days earlier would be coming _ his final proclamation declaring all slaves in states rebelling against the Union to be "forever free." A tradition began on Dec. 31, 1862, as many black churches held Watch Night services, awaiting word that Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation would take effect as the country was in the midst of a bloody Civil War. Later, congregations listened as the president's historic words were read aloud. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Watch Nights mark Emancipation Proclamation 150th

Brett Zongker · December 30, 2012 5:59 am